Chapter Summaries

Qian Chaoguang waited at Illustrious Virtue Hall for the Body Sect’s anticipated assault and protected Huo Yutong when its attackers struck. Four explosions devastated the research base, and black-clad assailants emerged to attack as the chapter ended.

• Qian Chaoguang refused Liu Tiezhu’s offer to obtain Experimental Tables and continued working at Illustrious Virtue Hall while waiting for the Body Sect.
• Qian Chaoguang sensed a disturbance, tackled Huo Yutong beneath an Experimental Table, and activated two shields as Huo Yutong raised her Mind Barrier.
• Four explosions tore through the research base, killing Soul Engineers at the blast centers and injuring many others.
• Black-clad attackers emerged from underground and began slaughtering their way through Illustrious Virtue Hall.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong dug into Body Sect’s tunnel beneath Illustrious Virtue Hall while the attackers slaughtered soul engineers above. He teleported Huo Yutong to his undead plane, where Electrolux greeted her and identified her as Qian Chaoguang’s younger sister.

• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong secretly dug through the underground defenses toward Body Sect’s tunnel as its forces killed soul engineers.
• Huo Yutong broke through into the tunnel, and Qian Chaoguang used his Divine Sense to monitor the Snow Emperor Embryo.
• Qian Chaoguang told Huo Yutong he had hidden something from her and sent her through a Space Teleportation Array to another plane.
• Huo Yutong arrived on a black plain beneath a purple sun and was surrounded by undead bearing welcoming banners.
• Electrolux emerged from an undead carriage, greeted Huo Yutong, and asked whether she was Qian Chaoguang’s younger sister.

Qian Chaoguang raced through the collapsing underground facility and stole the Humanoid Soul Tool, its research records, and equipment before the returning Body Sect Soul Douluo could catch him. He prepared to confront the Soul Douluo and seize the Snow Emperor Embryo, knowing he would have to kill him instantly.

• Electrolux introduced himself to Huo Yutong and took her on a carriage tour of the Undead Subplane.
• Qian Chaoguang hurried through the underground corridors as the battle between Du Busi and Jing Hongchen shook the facility.
• Qian Chaoguang entered the empty laboratory and used the Starlight Sapphire to collect the Humanoid Soul Tool into his subplane.
• Qian Chaoguang swept up the laboratory’s research records, Core Array blueprints, filing cabinets, and equipment, then destroyed what he could not take.
• Qian Chaoguang asked the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm if he was ready, while the Soul Douluo approached and Qian Chaoguang prepared to kill him for the Snow Emperor Embryo.

Qian Chaoguang killed a masked Soul Douluo and broke into the secret armory while Illustrious Virtue Hall was under attack. He found sixteen Rank Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shells and hundreds of Rank 8 shells, with the fate of the Snow Emperor Embryo still uncertain.

• Qian Chaoguang froze the charging Soul Douluo with Sky Dream One Finger and killed him with the Xuan Hui Blade.
• Qian Chaoguang hid the Soul Douluo's corpse in a Space Fissure and fled as the battle outside began to fade.
• Qian Chaoguang used a Drilling Soul Tool to bore through the secret armory's alloy wall while its power supply and alarms were disabled.
• Qian Chaoguang entered the armory and found sixteen Rank Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shells and several hundred Rank 8 shells.

Qian Chaoguang stole a vast arsenal of powerful Soul Tools and escaped while Jing Hongchen and Du Busi fought outside. In the Undead Subplane, Huo Yutong learned about Electrolux’s past and heard his explanation of how his divine soul preserved his memories.

• Qian Chaoguang discovered 270 Rank 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells and a thousand Eighth-Rank Baby Bottles in the secret arsenal.
• Qian Chaoguang took the Strategic Materials, escaped through a new tunnel, and began outlining a Space Teleportation Array in the dormitory.
• Electrolux welcomed Huo Yutong to the Undead Subplane and told her about his past, Qian Chaoguang’s encounters with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Ice Empress, and Artificial Soul Rings.
• Huo Yutong asked whether Electrolux could survive apart from Qian Chaoguang, and Electrolux explained that his incomplete soul still depended on him.
• Electrolux explained that his divine soul fragments each retained his complete memories and information.

Electrolux explained how his remnant soul retained and repaired its memories, then took Huo Yutong to investigate objects falling through the Gate of the Undead. They found Undead Creatures collecting Qian Chaoguang’s research materials as they poured from the fissure.

• Electrolux explained to Huo Yutong how his soul preserved its memories and how he had repaired them.
• Dragon One arrived with a Starlight Sapphire Storage Soul Tool that had fallen from the Gate of the Undead.
• Electrolux carried Huo Yutong onto Dragon One and ordered it to fly them back to the Gate of the Undead.
• Electrolux and Huo Yutong found Undead Creatures gathering research papers, materials, and Alloy Boxes falling from a Space Fissure.

Qian Chaoguang’s operation against Illustrious Virtue Hall yielded valuable Soul Tools, a sealed Snow Empress, and a huge stockpile of weapons and supplies. After reuniting with Huo Yutong, he left the haul under the Undead Creatures’ guard and prepared to return.

• Electrolux and Huo Yutong collected classified research Soul Tools and intact Core Arrays that fell through the Space Fissure.
• Electrolux retrieved the God Conferral Platform containing the Snow Empress and gave it and a Storage Ring to Huo Yutong.
• Huo Yutong discovered that the Starlight Sapphire Belt held sixteen Rank Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, 270 Rank 8 Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, and 1,000 Eighth-Rank Baby Bottles.
• Qian Chaoguang appeared through a hexagram, reunited with Huo Yutong, and unloaded his Strategic Materials and engineering Soul Tools.
• Qian Chaoguang ordered Dragon One and the other Undead Creatures to guard the collected supplies while he prepared to head back.

Jing Hongchen surveyed the devastation at Mingde Hall after the Body Sect’s attack and learned that Experiment No. 1, the Giant Humanoid Soul Tool, had been stolen along with its instruments and data. Overwhelmed by the loss, he coughed blood and collapsed into Lin Jiayi’s arms.

• Qian Chaoguang scared Huo Yutong with a sanity-draining move, then had Liches pin him down and cover him with Holy Light bombs while he worked on a Teleportation Array.
• Jing Hongchen led efforts to reinforce Mingde Hall’s damaged underground base and worried about the destruction, casualties, lost data, and damage to its geological structure.
• Lin Jiayi reported that the warehouse and its stored high-level soul tools were safe, but Experiment No. 1 had gone missing.
• Lin Jiayi told Jing Hongchen that the No. 1 Secret Laboratory’s instruments and data files had been stolen and its integrated soul tools destroyed.
• Jing Hongchen realized the loss of the Giant Humanoid Soul Tool and its accumulated research could not be borne, coughed blood, and collapsed.

After the Body Sect’s attack left Experimental Subject Number One missing and Secret Vault Number One robbed, Jing Hongchen suffered a severe collapse and ordered Mingde Hall to recover, hunt down the thieves, and conceal the losses. He was relieved to learn that Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong escaped unharmed, and ordered their resources doubled again as compensation.

• Lin Jiayi reported that Experimental Subject Number One had disappeared, and Jing Hongchen ordered him to keep the news secret.
• Lin Jiayi revealed that Secret Vault Number One had been completely robbed, and Jing Hongchen collapsed from shock and rage.
• Lin Jiayi revived Jing Hongchen with pills and Soul Power, and Jing Hongchen ordered a cover-up, recovery measures, and searches and bounties for the stolen goods and Body Sect members.
• Jing Hongchen learned that Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong had escaped the attack unharmed by digging back to the academy.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Lin Jiayi to look after Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong and raise their resources to four times the original amount.

Jing Hongchen dismissed Lin Jiayi’s suspicion that Shrek Academy had helped the Body Sect and decided to seek the Crown Prince’s protection. Meanwhile, Qian Chaoguang gave an elaborate cover story during questioning at Illustrious Virtue Hall and resisted a search of his and Huo Yutong’s belongings.

• Jing Hongchen told Lin Jiayi that he already knew there was a mole but argued that Shrek would not have endangered its own students by conspiring with the Body Sect, then ordered him to contain the incident’s fallout.
• Jing Hongchen concluded that only the Crown Prince could save him and worried that he had chosen a side too late.
• A teacher questioned Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong about the attack, and Qian Chaoguang claimed they had escaped by digging through a tunnel to the campus fountain.
• Qian Chaoguang accused the teacher of harassing his younger sister after catching him looking toward Huo Yutong’s underwear.
• When the teacher requested a thorough inspection of their soul tools, Qian Chaoguang objected and accused the academy of trying to steal Shrek’s secrets.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong faced an inspection at Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Master Academy, where Qian Chaoguang used his ties to the Star Luo imperial family to intimidate the teacher and demand compensation. After the teacher inspected their Storage Soul Tools and asked about Red Dust Shroud, he left to summon Director Lin Jiayi, leaving the siblings waiting for an apology and money.

• A questioning teacher warned Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong that refusing inspection could be treated as treason, prompting Qian Chaoguang to angrily challenge the accusation.
• Qian Chaoguang showed the teacher the Star Luo imperial Xu clan crest and Emperor Xu Jiawei's signed message, then demanded an apology and compensation for the academy's treatment of them.
• The teacher inspected their Storage Soul Tools and was stunned by their rare metals and numerous spatial soul tools.
• Qian Chaoguang explained that Jing Hongchen had given Red Dust Shroud to his teacher, who then passed it to him.
• The teacher promised to have Director Lin Jiayi negotiate compensation and hurried away, and Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong praised his performance.

After gaining compensation from Mingde Hall and watching the attack’s fallout spread across the continent, Qian Chaoguang turned to contacting the Snow Empress. He prepared to persuade her to support his Artificial Martial Soul plan and opened a mental channel into the God Conferral Platform.

• Lin Jiayi apologized to Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong, delivered two Experimental Tables, and doubled their resources again for two years.
• Qian Chaoguang obtained a three-year Cultivation Area VIP Card for Huo Yutong and arranged for her to work in the Undead Subplane.
• News of Mingde Hall’s attack spread, prompting punishment for Jing Hongchen, a sharp rise in rare-metal prices, and condemnation from the Body Sect.
• A previously unknown terrorist organization claimed responsibility for the attack, while the Body Sect’s standing rose across the continent.
• Electrolux used Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s Mental Power to open a channel between the God Conferral Platform and Qian Chaoguang’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Qian Chaoguang connected to the God Conferral Platform to begin communicating with the Snow Empress.

Qian Chaoguang entered the God Conferral Platform to reach Snow Empress, but she attacked before hearing him out. Ice Empress explained their situation and Qian Chaoguang’s bond with her, leaving Snow Empress stunned by the path Ice Empress had chosen.

• Snow Empress attacked Qian Chaoguang’s consciousness projection, so he withdrew and asked Electrolux to create a way for Ice Empress to reach her.
• Electrolux opened a mental connection to the God Conferral Platform, and Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm entered with Qian Chaoguang.
• Ice Empress and Snow Empress reunited, embraced, and discussed their struggles with Heavenly Tribulations and the limits of their bodies.
• Snow Empress recognized Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and Qian Chaoguang stopped him from interrupting the reunion.
• Qian Chaoguang explained that Ice Empress had become his Second Martial Soul and first soul ring, and Ice Empress recounted how she chose that path.
• Snow Empress listened to Ice Empress’s account and sighed over her decision.

The Ice Empress explained why she had chosen to trust Qian Chaoguang, and the Snow Empress met Electrolux, who revealed his extraordinary past. Qian Chaoguang laid out the Snow Empress’s two choices for becoming Huo Yutong’s Second Martial Soul or Spirit Ring and Soul Bone, leaving her to decide whether to cooperate.

• The Ice Empress said she had lost hope that Soul Beasts could become gods until she met Chaoguang.
• The Snow Empress questioned Electrolux, who introduced himself as Chaoguang’s teacher and claimed he had once wielded power beyond the gods of his former world.
• Qian Chaoguang told the Snow Empress that saving her came with conditions and insisted she was now only a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast embryo.
• Qian Chaoguang offered the Snow Empress the choice of losing her intelligence and becoming Huo Yutong’s Spirit Ring and Soul Bone, or keeping her mind as Huo Yutong’s Second Martial Soul.
• The Snow Empress threatened to destroy her Spiritual Origin, but Qian Chaoguang challenged her to try and explained that he had chosen her because her power would greatly benefit Huo Yutong.

Qian Chaoguang persuaded the Snow Empress to accept his offer of becoming a Soul Spirit, while promising that he could help her and the Ice Empress ascend to godhood. After agreeing, the Snow Empress was shocked when Qian Chaoguang revealed how she had sealed her origin and ended up imprisoned in the God Conferral Platform.

• Qian Chaoguang argued that the Snow Empress could survive as a Soul Spirit and gain a chance to ascend, while the Ice Empress anxiously urged her to agree.
• The Ice Empress clung to the Snow Empress and pleaded with her, and Qian Chaoguang reassured the Snow Empress that he would bring his Younger Sister to the God Realm.
• The Snow Empress questioned how Qian Chaoguang could guarantee the Ice Empress would become a god, and he claimed his knowledge of the God Realm's rules came from hidden trump cards.
• The Snow Empress overcame her pride and agreed to Qian Chaoguang's proposal.
• The Ice Empress asked how the Snow Empress had ended up imprisoned, and the Snow Empress was stunned when Qian Chaoguang accurately described her past.

Qian Chaoguang arranged for Snow Empress to become Huo Yutong’s Second Martial Soul, and Huo Yutong entered the God Conferral Platform to meet her and prepare to sign a Soul Contract. Their first conversation left Snow Empress less intimidating to Huo Yutong, while Electrolux prepared to guide the fusion.

• Qian Chaoguang teased Snow Empress about having a son, and she explained that Xiao Bai was an adopted Ice Bear King.
• Qian Chaoguang told Snow Empress she must sign a Master-Servant Soul Contract with Huo Yutong, and she accepted the condition.
• Electrolux explained how Snow Empress could preserve her abilities as Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones during the Martial Soul bestowal.
• Qian Chaoguang guided Huo Yutong’s Mental Power into the God Conferral Platform, where Electrolux introduced her to Snow Empress.
• Huo Yutong praised Snow Empress’s beauty and said her brother had taught her that fear came from the unknown and blind overthinking.

Huo Yutong and Snow Empress formed a Soul Contract, and Electrolux began the unprecedented ritual to fuse Snow Empress with Huo Yutong as her Second Martial Soul. The fusion started successfully, with Snow Empress drawn into Huo Yutong’s Sea of Consciousness as an icy chill spread through the ritual site.

• Huo Yutong and Snow Empress grew comfortable with each other and established a Soul Contract under Electrolux’s supervision.
• Qian Chaoguang opened the God Conferral Platform and released Snow Empress in a reduced form, which Snow Empress said would preserve her source and ease Huo Yutong’s fusion.
• Electrolux began the fusion ritual while drawing on Qian Chaoguang’s Mental Power, compressing Snow Empress into a Soul Sphere with stabilized Source Power.
• Qian Chaoguang reminded Huo Yutong to offer blood, and she infused essence blood into the golden chain connecting her to Snow Empress.
• The golden chain pulled Snow Empress into Huo Yutong’s Sea of Consciousness, and Electrolux tapped Huo Yutong’s dantian as extreme cold spread across the ground.

Qian Chaoguang, Electrolux, and the others successfully bestowed the Snow Emperor as Huo Yutong’s Second Martial Soul, giving her a torso bone and four Orange-Gold Soul Rings. Huo Yutong reached Rank 55, but Qian Chaoguang reminded her that Ultimate Ice would make her cultivation progress extremely slowly beyond Rank 30.

• Qian Chaoguang suppressed the forming Elemental Lightning Tribulation as Huo Yutong’s Second Martial Soul ritual began.
• The Snow Emperor crossed the seven-hundred-thousand-year threshold and became Huo Yutong’s Ultimate Ice Martial Soul.
• The Snow Emperor formed a torso bone and bestowed her innate skills through four Orange-Gold Soul Rings.
• Huo Yutong awakened with ten new Soul Skills and reached Rank 55.
• Huo Yutong wondered whether she could reach Soul Emperor before the next tournament, and Qian Chaoguang warned her that Ultimate Ice cultivation advanced slowly beyond Rank 30.

After Huo Yutong completed her Snow Emperor fusion, Qian Chaoguang learned that Liu Tiezhu had come to check on them after the attack on Illustrious Virtue Hall. The academy entered emergency repairs, and Liu Tiezhu lent Qian Chaoguang his treasured Soul Tool Armor notebook so he and Huo Yutong could study while the teachers helped with the aftermath.

• Electrolux confirmed that the Snow Emperor's fusion with Huo Yutong was stable, and Qian Chaoguang warned her not to reveal her Second Martial Soul at the academy.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong teleported out of the Undead Subplane and found Liu Tiezhu waiting at their door.
• Liu Tiezhu told them that the Body Sect's underground attack had caused heavy casualties, with eight hundred enemies and fifteen hundred defenders killed.
• Liu Tiezhu lent Qian Chaoguang his detailed Soul Tool Armor notebook and explained that he expected it back before he resumed teaching.
• Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong praised Liu Tiezhu as someone they could rely on.

Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong discussed recruiting Xuan Ziwen with civilian soul tool designs, while Qian Chaoguang wrestled with how to repay Liu Tiezhu for his valuable notebook. After Qian Duoduo returned to confirm they were safe, the academy remained quiet as the siblings cultivated for over a month.

• Qian Chaoguang felt guilty about accepting Liu Tiezhu’s notebook and rejected Huo Yutong’s suggestion that Liu Tiezhu join Shrek.
• Huo Yutong explained that Xuan Ziwen might leave with her if she showed him ten novel soul tools, and Qian Chaoguang proposed enticing him with designs for civilian devices and weapons.
• Three days later, Qian Duoduo rushed back to the academy and checked that Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong were unharmed.
• Qian Chaoguang concealed his raid on the Illustrious Virtue Hall’s secret armory, Laboratory Number One, and the Snow Emperor Embryo from Qian Duoduo.
• The academy stayed calm, and Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong cultivated for more than a month.